Hull Docks 1980s Part 1 by Bernard Sharp

Here’s the first in a series of posts of the docks in Hull as documented by Bernard in the 1980’s.

Thanks very much to Bernard for the permission to use both the images and text – all copyright Bernard Sharp and published under licence. All of the photographs are numbered with the corresponding text by Bernard to accompany each photograph below the gallery.

Victoria Dock

1. Victoria Dock, Kingston upon Hull, Sunday, 12 June, 1983. Vessels awaiting to be broken up at Slipway No.2.
2. Victoria Dock, Kingston upon Hull, Thursday, 26 April, 1984. A vessel in the easternmost Tidal Dock, originally part of Earle’s Shipbuilding & Engineering Yard. It was subsequently known as Silcock’s Wharf, the factory of R Silcock & Sons Ltd, cattle and poultry food manufacturers, located immediately to the north and west. Today, the dock is unused but incorporated into Victoria Dock Village.
3. Victoria Dock, Kingston upon Hull, Saturday, 28 April, 1984. The entrance to Slipway No.2 on the Humber estuary. Prior to its incorporation within the redevelopment of the Dock estate as Victoria Dock Village, the slipway was used as a ship-breaking yard.
4. Victoria Dock, Kingston upon Hull, Sunday, 12 June, 1983. Elver H338 moored on Slipway No.2.
5. Victoria Dock, Kingston upon Hull, Sunday, 1 August, 1982. The disused Victoria Dock Basin, as seen from South Bridge Road.
6. Victoria Dock, Kingston upon Hull, Sunday, 1 August, 1982. Victoria Dock Basin and shed on South Bridge Road, viewed from the western lock.
7. Victoria Dock, Kingston upon Hull, Sunday, 1 August, 1982. Mobile crane and plant on western lock pit side of Victoria Dock Basin with, in the background, shed on South Bridge Road.
8. Victoria Dock, Kingston upon Hull, Sunday, 12 June, 1983. Shed No.1, South Bridge Road.
9. Victoria Dock, Kingston upon Hull, Saturday, 28 April, 1984. Ship-breaking on Slipway No.2.
10. Victoria Dock, Kingston upon Hull, Sunday, 12 June, 1983. Winding shed, slipway No.2. Following redevelopment, the shed remains extant; the slipway is a freshwater pond, crossed by a footbridge.
11. Victoria Dock, Kingston upon Hull, Sunday, 1 August, 1982. The western lock, Victoria Dock Basin, as seen from the lock pit side.
12. Victoria Dock, Kingston upon Hull, Sunday, 1 August, 1982. South Bridge Road crossing the lock between the Basin and the Dock, the latter having been filled-in. Looking west to the Tidal Surge Barrier, in the far background, centre.

All of the images and accompanying text are copyright Bernard Sharp and used with permission and under licence (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0).

Rich and Lou Duffy-Howard